Vega (disambiguation) - Definition and Overview

Vega is a surname of several people:

• Amelia Vega is Miss Universe 2003 from Dominican Republic (born approx. 1983)
• don Diego de la Vega is a fictional "real name" of masked hero and swordsman known as Zorro
• Félix Lope de Vega Carpio was a Spanish playwright (1562–1635)
• Garcilaso de la Vega was a Spanish soldier and writer (1501-1536)
• Isidra Vega is a hispanic actress in the USA (born 1979)
• Janine Pommy Vega is an American poet (born 1942)
• baron Jurij Bartolomej Vega was a Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (1754-1802)
• Rómulo Díaz de la Vega was a Mexican president
• Suzanne Vega is an American songwriter and singer (born 1959)

In addition to this, Vega can mean several things:

• Vega is the lead star in the constellation Lyra
• The Chevrolet Vega was an American automobile model from the 1970s.
• Facel Vega was French builder of luxury cars (around late 1950s)
• Vega Alta and Vega Baja are municipalities in Puerto Rico
• VEGA computer algebra system is meant for manipulating discrete mathematics in Mathematica
• Vega, Norway is a municipality in Norway
• Vega, Haninge, Sweden is a town in the municipality of Haninge in Sweden
• Vega program was a Venus space mission
• Vega (launcher) is a planned European Space Agency launch system
• Vega is a video game character from Street Fighter
  • In Japan, M. Bison is called as "Vega".

For similar words, see also

• the Vegan diet